Next-gen Apple iPhone chips reportedly already in production

<p>Production on the next-generation processor that will power new iPhones launching later this year has reportedly already begun.</p>Apple manufacturing partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has begun producing what is expected to be called the A12 chip, sources tell Bloomberg. The chip's 7-nanometer design is said to make it faster and more efficient than the 10-nanometer chips found in current Apple devices.

Apple iPhone 7 patents : Your face is your password. With the iPhone 6 and now the Apple 's latest iPads, you can unlock the device using just your fingerprint thanks to the Touch ID sensor, but with this patent , future iPhones and other devices could be unlocked using facial recognition.

It's not known if the system just described will find its way into an upcoming iPhone , but the patent suggests Apple may be working on sensor technology Indeed, at this early stage in the iPhone 8 rumor mill, uncertainty surrounding the future of Touch ID could be down to misconstrued information

Apple has been granted a patent, first filed in 2015, that could lead to huge enhancements in the iPhone’s biometric powers by using “pulsed radiation” to peer into users’ veins. A relatively recent wave of similar patents could point to a new sub-dermal standard in future generations of smartphones and wearables.

Spotted by Apple Insider, the iPhone maker was granted a patent called “Vein imaging using detection of pulsed radiation,” which theorizes using infrared light to capture images of the veins beneath someone’s skin.

The vein-authentication technology could be used alongside Face ID, which unlocks iPhones using face-recognition technology. “A complex pattern of blood vessels runs close beneath the skin of the face, and detection of this pattern under infrared illumination could be used, for example, to enhance the reliability of facial authentication,” the patent reads.

YouTube now supports HDR video on Apple’s latest iPhones

YouTube has added support for HDR video playback on Apple’s iPhone X, 8, and 8 Plus.&nbsp;YouTube has plenty of great demo material for seeing the improved picture for yourself: just search “HDR” and you’ll find no shortage of exotic scenery, cityscapes, food, animals, and other demo reel material. My iPhone switched over to HDR automatically once I started streaming a video, but you can also tap the icon with three vertical dots to manually enable it. Note that since it’s really all about color, brightness, and contrast, you don’t have to pick 1080p to enjoy HDR; it’s also supported at lower resolutions like 480p.

( Apple first filed a a patent for 3D- scanning technology in 2015, but it wasn’t granted until earlier Beranek says that since these 3D systems take in so much data, facial scanning could be more That’s why setting up FaceID will require moving the iPhone in a circle around your face , to get

According to a new Apple patent , future iPhones could get them, too, to bring you better photos. The patent also suggests it would have pixels sized at 1.2 microns or less.

As Apple Insider hypothesizes, vein-based biometrics could help solve the iPhone X’s “twin problem.” Face ID boasts an impressively low false-positive rate, but can be fooled by identical twins. Vein structure is unique, even among twins, and would theoretically solve the problem.

This isn’t the first time tech companies have pursued vein-based biometrics. In 2013, Google filed a patent for a Google Glass-like devices capable of “authenticating the user based, on each of the iris images, the retina images, and the eye vein images both individually and in combination.” Samsung similarly published a patent in 2016 for vein-recognizing smartwatches, though Apple may be unique in exploring vein recognition in combination with face recognition in smartphones.

Of course, it’s only a patent, which is a long way from confirmation that Apple is even considering the tech in the near future. Apple has previously explored smartphone features that would allow users’ heartbeats to unlock their phones as early as 2010.

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Teen phone-monitoring app reportedly leaks account information .
Servers left unprotected and accessible by anyone without a password, ZDNet reports. The data on the server contained the parent's email address associated with the child's Apple iCloud email address and their hashed password. It also includes the child's device name -- which is often just their name -- and their device's unique identifier.The company pulled its servers offline after being alerted to the leak by ZDNet."We have taken action to close one of our servers to the public and begun alerting customers that could potentially be impacted," a TeenSafe spokesperson told ZDNeton Sunday.

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